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Sunday, October 23, 2005
10:16:00 PM EDT
Hearing Something by Mendelssohn
If you were wondering what happened to the second entry today: Here it is! I was out and about with the family, doing family togetherness time. From which I can make the following observations:
Bowling: Fun, but makes your forearms sore for hours afterwards. Also, just because you're playing with bumpers in the gutters (so your six-year-old doesn't have to worry about gutter balls) doesn't mean that you suddenly become a better bowler. Oh, my, no.
Shopping: Went into one of those stores this afternoon that more or less cater to young rock youth, and was somewhat depressed to see the vast majority of t-shirts for sale there were for The Grateful Dead, The Doors, and Pink Floyd. What century is it again? Also for sale: Lots and lots of fantasy-styled knives and swords, which I found puzzling as well. But here's a fun thing to do: As your six-year-old is admiring the knives, say within earshot of the shop help, "now honey, remember what we said: No knives until you're eight." Also fun: when you joking say to your daughter: "What do you need a knife for anyway? Do you have an enemies list?" And your daughter has the wit to say "maybe," in just the right tone to make the shop help squeak in surprise.
Movies: Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit -- very cute. Very amusing. I recommend it, and I say that as someone who thinks the Wallace & Gromit shorts are ever-so-slightly overrated.
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10:16:00 PM EDT
Hearing Something by Mendelssohn
My Sunday
If you were wondering what happened to the second entry today: Here it is! I was out and about with the family, doing family togetherness time. From which I can make the following observations:
Bowling: Fun, but makes your forearms sore for hours afterwards. Also, just because you're playing with bumpers in the gutters (so your six-year-old doesn't have to worry about gutter balls) doesn't mean that you suddenly become a better bowler. Oh, my, no.
Shopping: Went into one of those stores this afternoon that more or less cater to young rock youth, and was somewhat depressed to see the vast majority of t-shirts for sale there were for The Grateful Dead, The Doors, and Pink Floyd. What century is it again? Also for sale: Lots and lots of fantasy-styled knives and swords, which I found puzzling as well. But here's a fun thing to do: As your six-year-old is admiring the knives, say within earshot of the shop help, "now honey, remember what we said: No knives until you're eight." Also fun: when you joking say to your daughter: "What do you need a knife for anyway? Do you have an enemies list?" And your daughter has the wit to say "maybe," in just the right tone to make the shop help squeak in surprise.
Movies: Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit -- very cute. Very amusing. I recommend it, and I say that as someone who thinks the Wallace & Gromit shorts are ever-so-slightly overrated.
And how was your Sunday?
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My Sunday was spent being sick. This never works when you are the mommy, though. Do you men even know what a dishwasher does? He will touch the dishes only long enough to dirty them!
Traci My rant for the week! -
"Do you like the knife, Honey? Just stab the nice man over there and take it."
The Pink Floyd shirts are less a generational thing than a drug thing. Pink Floyd, the Dead, and the Doors (someone forgot Led Zeppelin) are pretty much the Father, Son and Holy Spirit of Bands To Listen To While Taking Hallucinogens.
Whatever faults disco and singer/songwriter music eras have, the 1970s were the end of serious psychedelic tunes. With the exception of the late Alice In Chains, the music kids are getting high to these days tends to be that techno nonsense- which is more for people on X than for a serious day tripper. Rap music seems to have a good grip on the potheads, but the Shroomers need their own sounds, too.
In that context, it isn't at all surprising that a lot of today's kids go back to John's older brother's time to find music to get high to.
To make it PG... how old was that Shel Silverstein book Athena was reading in that recent entry you did? Sure, there are lots of good things to entertain a child with, things made right here in 2005, like Wallace and Grommit.... but the older stuff still has a few good scraps left in it, too. -
My Sunday was fantastic. Sox won 7 to 6. Heart stopper of a game, too.
Jude
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Sorry dude, you missed that one.
The FIRST W&G is slightly overrated. That I will give you. BUT the other two? Pure genius. I mean, come on, that train chase in "The Wrong Trousers." ? You just can't beat that for sheer exhilarhation. Or the multipule "Terminator" refrences in "A Close Shave."? With the cross-over into "Indiana Jones" on the conveyor belt? I'm a pop-culture junkie, and I was in exctasy.
I'm getting giddy just thinking about the W&G MOVIE!
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10/25/05 12:13 AM